Posts by Tony Greenstein

Israeli politics cannot be compared with those in western capitalist democracies like Britain. The terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ are not the same in Israeli politics as elsewhere. In the West they bear some relationship to class, New Labour notwithstanding. The left has represented, in however distorted a fashion, the interests of the working class and…

Reports of the attack on a synagogue on 1st February in Caracas, Venezuela give one a sense of déjà vu. Whenever a radical, anti-American regime comes to the fore in South or Central America, you can be sure that it is going to be accused of ‘anti-Semitism’. This is an old theme with a long…

Below is a moving open letter to Israel’s President asking that his grandfather’s name, Moshe Brajtberg, is removed from the database of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Propaganda Museum. What is particularly shameful is that not once, ever, has Yad Vashem spoken out about the atrocities visited on the Palestinian or Lebanese population as a result…

I have been contacted by Bernie Regan asking that his personal e-mail address be removed from the memo he sent round to selected members of PSC asking them to support stuffing PSC’s Executive with Socialist Action and Communist League members. I’m happy to do so. But perhaps Bernie could comment on information I’ve just received…

Auschwitz gas chamber – above There is nothing more guaranteed to anger apologists for Israel’s works and its soft-left ‘critics’ then any comparison with the Nazis. This is ‘insulting to Jews’. It is defined by the European Monotoring Committee as ‘anti-Semitism’ – something adopted by Dennis MacShanes joke of a Parliamentary Committee on anti-Semitism. I…

As I have already documented, Israel’s Orthodox Rabbinate has been in the forefront of providing the ideological and spiritual justification for the worst of the barbarities in Gaza. Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Mordechai Eliyahu and his son, Chief Rabbi of Safed, have justified any amount of war crimes by declaring that the civilian population of…

It is now very clear that the last reason the BBC didn’t want to show the Appeal for Gaza was because of the danger of its independence being compromised. Indeed the exact opposite is the case. It is precisely because the film shows at least some of the devastation of Gaza that the BBC has…

‘The Nazis boycotted Jewish shops and Histadrut boycotted Arab produce Histadrut recognises the urgent need for the State of Israel to operate against the command and control structures of the organisational terror network belonging to Hamas… No democratic country in the world would allow its sovereignty to be violated and its citizens subjected to terror…

The BBC was born in the womb of the British establishment. Those with an eye to history will know that during the General Strike in Britain in 1926 the BBC refused to broadcast an appeal by the Archbishop of Canterbury appealing for an amicable settlement. The Government was determined to smash the strikers and Lord…

An amazing thing is happening. For the first time ever students have gone into occupation over the question of Gaza. This is unprecedented. Never before has the Israel/Zionism issue provoked student demonstrations and direct action, not even at the height of the Lebanese War in 1982. Students in the past have been deterred by the…